Principal Investigator:Bell, Marnie Licenced Year(s):
2013
Summary:
Project Goal: Health and social service providers in the North will have access to a learning resource that will help them to support communities to find their own ways to promote wellness and healthy living.
Objectives:
To identify community development needs, preferences for ongoing learning and expectations for support from employers; to assess levels of competency and perform a gap analysi...

Principal Investigator:Pearce, Tristan DLicenced Year(s):2014
2013
Summary:
The Nunamin Illihakvia project is dedicated to enabling the transfer of traditional knowledge, skill sets and values, based on Inuit knowledge and guiding principles in a changing climate. The specific objectives are to:
1) Facilitate the transfer of knowledge and skills among experienced hunters, Elders and younger generation Inuit for how to make seal hunting equipment, how to travel on the sea...

Principal Investigator:Saxon, Leslie A.Licenced Year(s):20152014
2013
20112009Summary:
The purpose of this research project is to increase the existing Tlicho Multimedia Online Dictionary and the related iPhone/iPad app Yati by adding the place names information previously researched with Tlicho elders (Dogrib Treaty 11 Council 2002), and doing additional research with Tlicho people of all ages. You can look at the dictionary on the internet now: http://tlicho.ling.uvic.ca. Other go...

Principal Investigator:Daitch, Sarah SLicenced Year(s):
2012
Summary:
The aim of this research is to gauge whether the residential school teaching and learning unit in the new Grade 10 Northern Studies course enables NWT students to meaningfully engage with the difficult legacy of Indian Residential Schools. Based on the experiences of the students, the principal researcher plans to make recommendations regarding the teaching and learning material to the NWT Departm...

Principal Investigator:Jaker, Alessandro MLicenced Year(s):20142013
2012
2009200820072005Summary:
This project will produce two published materials, in Dogrib and Chipewyan: an intermediate-level reader, and a verb dictionary. The reader will contain elders' stories on topics from Dene Kede, with a focus on animals: the research team would like to include at least two short stories on each animal in both languages. The verb dictionary will list at least 200 verbs in each language, with the...

Principal Investigator:Branch, Jennifer Licenced Year(s):
1999
Summary:
The researcher will meet with community members, parents, students, teachers and school administrators to learn about the information seeking processes of junior high students. The equipment used on site will include a computer with CD-ROM capabilities, audio cassette recorder and video cassette recorder. The methods of data collection will include interviews, observations and verbal protocol anal...

Principal Investigator:McNeal, Joanne Licenced Year(s):
1994
19931992Summary:
Phase One and Two were completed in 1992 and 1993. Phase 3 (completion) will review previous interviews and additional interviews will be conducted. Current interviews will become part of an international project headed by Dr. Rita Irwin of UBC....

Principal Investigator:Ahmad, Joe Licenced Year(s):
1992
Summary:
This project is looking to see if traditional knowledge can be documented and distributed using the emerging technology of computer-based advice....

Principal Investigator:Henteleff, Saul Licenced Year(s):1993
1992
Summary:
For a period of 5 days, I will work with a group of high school students from Iqaluit to conduct an assessment of contemporary television programs. The objective of the research will be to determine what interest the group has in this form of media as both a source of cultural information as well as a means for individual expression....